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Don’t ban e-cigarettes on airplanes

by R.J. Lehmann
Feb 20, 2015
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issues: Behavioral Health, Harm Reduction, Healthier Communities, Substance Regulation, Tobacco Harm Reduction
originally published in CNN.com
From CNN.com:

There is simply no evidence that secondhand aerosols exhaled by e-cigarette users endanger non-users. As Dr. Joel Nitzkin, a former co-chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force of the American Association of Public Health Physicians, said, “[T]here is no public health justification for banning e-cigarette use in no-smoking areas.”

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